Sentence examples for because they were held from inspiring English sources

This was because they were held by subsidiaries of Santander.

Kettle missed the High Laver celebrations because they were held in August, the month of his birth.

The refugees suffered "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment" because their detention was arbitrary and indefinite, and because they were held in inadequate conditions.

It said the past Olympics drew more viewers because they were held in the U.S., and 40percentt of its programming was live.

Dawson missed the last world championships, in Beijing, because they were held shortly after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Mr. Woodfox and Mr. Wallace, with another former Black Panther, became known as the Angola Three because they were held in isolation for about three decades at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola.

"To penalize them because they were holding up their end of the bargain long before anyone else seems patently unfair.

There were some fingers that were not jammed into ears, mainly because they were holding cellphone cameras and waiting for the puff of white smoke.

Sienna Miller complained of being harassed by a pack of men chasing her down the street, and asked why that was legal just because they were holding cameras.

"All I wanted was a chance to fail or succeed on my own merits, not because they were holding me up," she said.

Without a doubt, the big Wall Street banks were so vulnerable in 2008 in part because they were holding very little capital relative to the size of their balance sheets.